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Professors see anticancer potential in tobacco leaves
Public campaigns have heightened our awareness of the adverse health effects stemming from excessive tobacco use.
What is not so well known is that fresh tobacco leaves may possess certain useful anticancer compounds, according to Dr. Khalid El Sayed, an Associate Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the ULM College of Pharmacy.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently awarded El Sayed and ULM colleagues Drs. Paul Sylvester and Girish Shah a patent for their discovery of anticancer prototype compounds, which are found in the waxy substance on fresh tobacco leaves and which show potential for controlling metastic breast and prostate cancers.
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